The Dumbing Down of Voters
By Rick Shenkman | Sunday, June 15, 2008 | The Boston Globe
“…Politics today is conducted at a lower level than it used to be. Not many voted against William Howard Taft because he was fat or Abraham Lincoln because he was thin. One can’t imagine Franklin Roosevelt being judged by how badly he bowled or how convincingly he knocked back a tumble of scotch. Indeed, studies show that the speeches presidents gave a half-century ago were pitched at the 12th-grade level – five grades above the level of speeches given by presidents over the last generation….”…BS
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